Changes in blood pressure variability in adolescents with essential and secondary hypertension
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| Year of publication | 2004 |
| Type | Conference abstract |
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| Description | The aim of the present study was to determine the interrelationship among the baroreflex sensitivity (BRS), the variability in systolic blood pressure (varSBP) and pulse intervals (varPI) in adolescents with essential and secondary hypertension. The high systolic blood pressure variability in hypertensives could be explained by a primarily increased sympathetic vasomotor activity and by an inadequate dampening effect of baroreflex. The same low number of subjects with secondary hypertension and controls in subgroup with high varSBP, low varPI and low BRS and a high number of subjects with essential hypertension can indicate significantly greater influence of a baroreflex inadequacy in the development of essential hypertension. |
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